Významný představitel britské new wave, zpěvák, kytarista, skladatel a producent, vl. jm. Declan Patrick Aloysius McManus (nar. 1955). Významným momentem v jeho tvorbě je i společenská kritika a osobitá “antihvězdnost”. Hudebně byl též ovlivněn...

Píseň: No Hiding Place

Interpret:
Elvis Costello
Album:
Elvis Costello Momofuku
In the not very distant future
When everything will be free
There won't be any cute secrets
Let alone any novelty


You can say anything you want to
In your fetching cloak of anonymity
Are you feeling out of breath now?
In your desperate pursuit of infamy


Two lovers rocking up and down
In an elevator
15 minutes later
They'll make a killing in the market
They know how to work it
On that close circuit
My, my, it's a terrible disgrace
You'll find these days that there's
No Hiding Place


How proud you are
You got the knack
Of howling in a vacuum
Whatever I said about you
I didn't say it behind your back


I paid for my immortal sins
I know the enemy within you
As it seems these days
There is no hiding place


Next time someone wants to hurt you
Or set alight your effigy
Don't call on me to help you out
Don't come crying to me for sympathy
You stay there with your daubs and scratches
While I summon up the red machine
I'll be handing somebody matches
And carrying a can of kerosene


Walk up to me
And say what you said
Let's see how brave you are
When I'm about this far


You sit in judgment and bitch
Well, baby that's rich
You're nothing but a snitch


My, my, it's a terrible disgrace
My, my, it's a terrible disgrace
My, my, it's a terrible disgrace
You'll find these days that there's
No Hiding Place